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Self-hosters and small teams who want Pingdom-style monitoring without a subscription.

Why it deserves attention

Uptime Kuma checks HTTP, TCP, ping, DNS, and push heartbeats, shows status pages, and sends alerts to Slack, Telegram, email, webhooks, and dozens of other channels. It runs from a single Docker container with SQLite, and its dashboard is friendly enough for non-operators. It is MIT-licensed with 93,000 GitHub stars and a large plugin-free integration list. It is single-node monitoring, not a distributed observability platform, so pair it with logs and metrics for production.

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